A Day at TreKonderoga Part One: Welcome to TreKonderoga!

Hard to believe a week has passed already since my wonderful visit to Ticonderoga, NY to attend TreKonderoga with my great friend Bobbie.

TreKonderoga is the annual mini-Trek Convention that takes place annually at the marvelous Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in the middle of Ticonderoga, NY. How did this incredible recreation of the TOS set come about? Well, as Wikipedia so deftly puts it:

In the middle of Ticonderoga lies the wonderful Star Trek Original Series Set Tour! Built by James Cawley, the sets were built to make Star Trek: New Voyages was created by James Cawley in April 2003. Jack Marshall came aboard as a producer with the idea to market the series on the internet.[3] The first episode, “Come What May” debuted on the internet on January 2004. The first episodes were filmed on new sets at a long-shuttered car dealership in Port Henry, NY,[4] but production eventually moved to a former Family Dollar store at 112 Montcalm St. in downtown Ticonderoga, NY.[5] This facility is currently open to the public for tours and is officially licensed by CBS. Tour information is available at http://www.startrektour.com

I took a zillion pictures so I’ll be breaking this report up into several sections – Enjoy! First up: Welcome to TreKonderoga! Part II -Touring the Enterprise! – next!

The sign out front

I bet he was the most comfortable man there!

The lovely ‘MB’ welcomed us out front.

The schedule had been revised, but still full!

AAAAAHHH! Salt Vampire!

A pretty nice model, complete with suction cups!

Gorn! (with Yonada ‘God’ in the back’)

Gorn again!

These 60’s chairs were pretty comfy! (I’m pretty sure chairs like these were used in TOS too!)

A gallery of Trek stars in the lobby -George Takei

Grace Lee Whitney

Walter Koenig

Nichelle Nichols

James, De, and Bill.

Spock’s original costume from Star Trek V…Must. Touch.

…with accompanying pics.

Lots of great costumes in t display case with Klingon Ship!

Detail of Klingon model.

Original Klingon top.

Kirk’s iconic Mirror Mirror tunic& sash (recreated right down to the insignias)

An Uhura uniform, and behind it, a gold “casual” top for Captain Kirk in the never-realized Star Trek Phase II series.

The police captain from Bread & Circuses (note lion emblem details)

Great repro of Balok puppet. The cloak appeared to made of header fabric.

Tribbles! The 2 brown on top are actual TOS tribbles from the episode!

More detailed props

I. AM. NOMAD.

Our beloved Enterprise.

Great repro of Captain Pike’s uniform w/ phaser and communicator.

Details! (Wow!)

Spock’s computer from ‘The Cage’

Let’s see, I had that, and that, and that too…

Lots of Tee Shirts and souvenirs of course.

My old pal Bill from our local Trek club in the ’70s, with some familiar faces.

My friend Bobbie with her favorite Vulcan!

Even the wax Kirk seems to be sweaty!

Vulcans don’t sweat, of course; love the eyebrow action!

Jim who? Spock & me 😉

A logical posture.

Nice hands, but the rank on the sleeves is wrong! (should be two solid stripes) I think Spock is wearing McCoy’s shirt!

5 responses to “A Day at TreKonderoga Part One: Welcome to TreKonderoga!”

oh I am SO jealous. I hope that I can get up there sometime and take the ST tour. One thing I should mention that Spock’s hands are facing in the wrong direction. Try putting your hands behind your back like he does and you can see they are not in the right position, unless you’re a contortionist. your palms should be facing outward not the tops of your hands.

Great photos!!! I was there May 5th to see William Shatner and got a photo with him on the bridge. I didn’t take nearly as many photos as you and it appeared that items were added like the costumes and wax (?) figures of Kirk and Spock.

Yes, I’ve read this. It’s sad. However, We were speaking with James Cawley (at TreKonderoga) and he said it was only short-term memory she has at this time. They hope that she will not be denied conventions, and so do I. She enjoys the moment, and that’s a blessing. I love Nichelle.